J. K. Rowling Quotes

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.

Don't move to L.A to become an actress - you'll just be a waitress. Don't drive to Nashville to become a country music star - you'll just end up playing empty honky-tonks at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?

I don't think everybody in Vermont loves me.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

Some people either really like me or some people don't like me, but even if you don't like me right now or you kinda like me right now, this isn't the end for me, I'm going to continue.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.